Callahan: Peterson opinion piece ignores long-term reality

4:21 PM,
Oct. 31, 2013

Written by

Deborah Callahan
Shreveport

How condescending! Karen Carter Peterson is truly the chair of the Louisiana Democratic Party. She's worried more about 16 days than about the rest of the fiscal year, or the next 10 fiscal years, when this nation goes deeper and deeper into debt. Even the smallest of households knows you can't spend money you don't have. At some point the creditors come calling.

The U.S. House submitted budgets to the Senate earlier this year to try to resolve the fiscal cliff, but the Senate would not act on them. The House submitted ...